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LOST CAUSE OF THE YEAR The Comprehensive Spending Review So here’s the problem: the idea of cutting spending sounds absolutely brilliant, right up to the point at which spending starts getting cut. And then it starts sounding bad. The Comprehensive Spending Review started by aiming at £50 million in cuts, rapidly rising to £65 million […]

From Deputy Shona Pitman. I WRITE with regard to an email of mine on which you based an article (JEP, 29 July). The first point I would make is one expressed to me by constituents and other members of the public. This being, isn’t it strange how such a triviality apparently warrants such extensive coverage, […]

TOP dog, captain of the ship, esteemed leader or plain, simple Chief Minister – whatever you want to call the person who will lead Jersey’s government for the next few years one thing is for sure, they had better be up for a challenge.

HAVING just read some of the online comments about last Wednesday’s series of elections to the Big House, I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter what the outcome of the democratic process, someone will always call ‘foul’ if a particular result doesn’t suit them.

OF all of the things that you’ll hear during the election campaign, my money’s on this one being a big hit among candidates: ‘This is the biggest election for years.’

SOME would say that Senator Terry Le Main is walking the narrow line which separates sound common sense from a policy which could be seen as discriminatory when he says that five-year residents must be given priority in the job market.